Adolescent Health And Development And Nutritional Needs For Women And Children

Question 1

Who’s is an adolescent?
Who is a Teenager?
Who is someone in puberty?
State the forms of adolescents
State the types of development in adolescents
Which type starts early ?

Answer 1

Adolescent: from 11-21years
Puberty:biological chnages that occur in people in their adolescent age
Teenager:13-19 years

Early adolescence: 11-14 years
Mid adolescence:15-17years
Late adolescence:18-21years

Types of adolescents:
Physical development or Secondary sexual characteristics
Intellectual or cognitive development
Emotional development
Psychosocial development

Emotional development starts early
At the late stage,adolescents are able to reason ,plan,etc

Question 2

What are the health problems associated w adolescents
The attitude of the mother during organcy can influence the child’s development
Children 7months to 7 years learn by hypnosis and they observe and act
Sexual enhancement drugs that cause the penis to be erect for a long time can cause apoptosis or cell death cuz it causes blood congestion
Green vomit is from the duodenum
Yellow vomit is from the stomach
Vomit w blood clot shows upper Gi bleeding
There is a difference between blood stained vomit and hematemesis true or false

Answer 2

Depression
STDs
Eating disorders
Drug abuse
Malnutrition
Violence
Development delay

Question 3

What are the areas the health secto need to pay attention to concerning adolescence
Secondary sexual characteristics are under the influence of androgens (oestorgen and testosterone)
Adolescents are very assertive and emotional
true or false
What are the secondary sexual characteristics in males and the ones in females

Answer 3

All adolescents are not the same
All adolescents development comes w health problems
Social or ethnic communities where adolescents are,differ
Most adolescents tend to be abused
They need implicit attention (example don’t mingle teenagers who ar pregnant w older pregnant women for antenatals care because older pregnant women. May abuse the teenagers verbally or stigmatize them thereby stopping them from coming for antenatal)
The development issues adolescents develop during adolescence influenced their future
Their emotional state should be hand eased for good
They analyze things and ask more questions because of their cognitive development
Government policies and program enactment should take into consideration the needs of the adolescents

Question 4

Get The Who document on adolescents health and the one on nutritional needs for women and kids
If an 11year old gets pregnant it’s not teenage pregnancy
It is pregnancy in a younger person
What is the importance of folic acid
How is prenatal assessment done?
What food groups do pregnant women need a lot

Know the labs for pregnant women

Answer 4

Important for blood formation and neural tube defects
Women are given folic acid below 12 weeks and after 12 weeks ,muktivite or iron is added

Prenatal assessment:
Measuring the woman’s nutritional status,doing baseline tests such as RFT(if kidneys aren’t functioning well there’ll be even more load on it because now the mother excretes twice th waste thereby impairing the kidneys furthered and impairing the excretory function causing harm ),LFT,Hb levels(very important for cellular respiration because if the Hb is low,cellular respiration won’t be done well cuz of decreased oxygen)

The six for groups of food nutrients is needed-carbs,proteins,minerals,vitamins,fats and oils,water
Serum beta HCg-Beta Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) is used to check for pregnancy

You need to counsel and educate the pregnant woman on the six food groups in the right proportions
Nutritious diet has six essential nutrients in the right proportion
Teach them how to replace their nutrient store adequately

Pregnant women need lots of protein to produce more amino acids for the foetus to use it to get proteins
Carbs for adequate foetal brain growth